CAS PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Prospect Theory, Gender Role, Stereotype
5 Dec 2016
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Stereotyping: beliefs about what members of a group are like (cognitive component) Prejudice: negative emotional responses/attitudes based on group membership (affective component) Discrimination: differential treatment (usually negative) based on group membership. Target factors groups (race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation/lgbtq, class/ses, religion, intelligence, age, appearance/body type, introversion/extroversion, clothing, occupation, language spoken. Schemas (shorthand), ex: name some of the many stereotypes from the movie. Stereotypes (beliefs about different traits/attributes characteristic of certain groups) may be: positive/negative, accurate/inaccurate, hostile/benign (muslims are terrorists vs asians are good at math, agreed upon/disagreed upon (by targeted group) Prospect theory: people are risk averse (losses viewed more significant than gains: ex: hate crimes- majority feeling that minority gaining ground seen as a. Loss (more troubling than their own gain : ex: backlash of racism after obama elected. Glass ceiling you can see that there"s advancements above, but women can only go so high until they hit the glass ceiling.
